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But it found the health service had made major improvements to how it manages general practice prescriptions.
In practice, prescriptions are rarely presented when purchasing prescription-only medicines.
For the period 2001 2003 data were extracted from the EMR, concerning contacts with the family practice, prescriptions, referrals, and patient characteristics (age, sex).
We calculated mean figures for the number of contacts with the practice, prescriptions and referrals, and tested for statistical significance of the differences between the two groups using univariate variance analyses (Student's t-test).
We also calculated mean figures for the number of contacts with the general practice, prescriptions and referrals, and tested for significance between the two groups using univariate variance analyses (Student's t-test).
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These data have shown excellent agreement with general practice prescription records [ 11].
In 22 of the 85 practices, because the prescriptions could not be linked to a specific GP within the practice, the average practice prescription rates were allocated to all GPs of that practice.
Reliability of reporting has been checked on a subset of participants and found to be excellent when compared with general practice prescription records [ 17].
Similarly, for the practice: "Prescription of NSAIDS to treat osteoarthritis for patients with history of peptic ulcer", we assumed that NSAIDS were always prescribed for osteoarthritis.
Health care utilisation was assessed using data on contacts with general practice, prescription and referral rates recorded between 1/1/2001 and 31/12/2007.
For example, for the practice: "Prescription of a thiazide diuretic to treat hypertension for patients with a history of gout", we assumed that a thiazide diuretic was always prescribed for hypertension.
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